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France beat Scotland, although Frank Hadden's bore merchants manage to silence large tracks of the Stade De France crowd with their home made brand of dull rugby, though the Evans brothers were a welcome runnign threat, they will undoubtedly be dropped for being too exciting. Hardinordquay is my played of the tournament so far.

After all the passion, a bit of a damp squib at the Millenium. In spite of scoring more tries than Wales (and it was great to see my boy Delon create a bit of magic) England still look unimaginative, and seem to prefer defending to attacking. The world's most devolved looking man Joe Worsley has a stotrmer and Wales' strike runners looked average. I was surprised Hook wasn't brought on and maybe Wales should've have kicked over the top a bit more to keep the English defence honest. England's discipiline is appalling.

Speaking of appalling discipline - Italy were an absolute disgrace yesterday. He got off because it was 46 seconds into the game, but Masi should've been sent off - his 'tackle' on Kearney was abhorent and honestly could've crippled him. Also Castrogiovanni is a purebred cunt, which I could accept better if he wasn't getting pasted by Marcus Horan the world's worst prop. The worse was Parisee seemed to be encouraging this behaviour and at one point Chris White had to actually force him to talk to his players about his behaviour. Ireland did not play well (Heaslip, Kearney, Fitzgerald and Ferris aside), but it was hard to in such a fractured game. I thought we did well to show as much patience as we did, and a valuable +29 to the points difference tally.

but i think that working from a secure base is the only way that england are going to feel comfortable looking for invention. start dull, then slowly liven up. it happened in both halves, and if they cycle through the gears a little faster they're going to be quite competative.

good to see sackey poaching again and yes, the discipline was quite shocking.

it was encouraging how much yardage we managed to gain and to be honest, we did seem like we had more of a cutting edge than I thought we did. France were pegged back by us quite a lot which was nice. still loads of room for improvement.

placing Worsely at 12 defensively meant they were never going to threaten at the breakdown - and they didn't. Wales, well, maybe a bit naive in running Roberts down the same channel all the time, but he only lost the ball once, so it wasn't that bad - plus he was the biggest yard gainer on the pitch. I'd have had kittens if Hook was brought on, but Peel should have come on a good 20 minutes earlier. Phillips was poor.

France - Scotland: very poor. If the Scots hadn't made so many basic errors they could well have won. The French were hopeless. I'm not sure Lievremont has a clue what he's doing.

Ireland - Italy: Again, not a great spectacle. Italy could, and should, have been ahead going in at half time, but they, again, conceded sloppy points. Ireland did enough to win comfortably and they'll be big favourites going in against England.

Player of the round: Gethin Jenkins. And if anyone argues with me then you're mental.